Borderlands 2 W10 solution

[3DNovice]

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[Lysander]

yes, it was broken for me, too

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[Lysander]

Oh, cool, I will try that later today

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[Lysander]

Didnt work for me with Epic version. If I launched Borderlands2.exe, the game crashed with some message about Epic having to run. I launched it from Epic but the shadows were broken.

[DJ-RK]

I completely forgot that Helix had also made an injector version.

Guess what...It works!!

Ok, so when you say "it works" do you mean you specifically tried with Borderlands 2 and got it working? Because the last time I tried...

Didnt work for me with Epic version... shadows were broken.

... was my end result as well. (Steam version, though)

I was aware that Helix had the Lua scripting engine for Dx9 fixes, but I wasn't aware it worked here. I'm pretty sure I tried, though, because I tried a few different approaches to get BL2 working again, but couldn't get anything working again. My recollection and/or assumption was that the fix was pretty barebones because BL2 was one of the few games where the built in Nvidia stereo support in the UE3 engine fully worked (by turning on the AllowNvidiaStereo3D=True flag, or something like that, in one of the .ini files, and somehow I believe that functionality got broken during the Battle for Sanctuary DLC update.

Anyways, would be curious to confirm if "it works" refers to the BL2 fix, or if you were just generally referring to the injector version of the tool?

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[mercier1200]

Hi,
I did see your post and remembered that I got it working last year using the original fix.

I used the good old technique of “download an older steam version”. Gearbox have indeed broke the fix a while back and getting and older version works perfectly.

You simply have to find the right manifest using steamDB an then download it via DepotDownloader and finally copy it in your game directory.

However, no possibility to play online with this solution.

Hope it can help someone

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[mercier1200]

Yes, I personally don’t understand the behaviour of steam auto-update.

Sometimes you have to play in offline mode, but sometimes auto-update will never bother you (i presently play Hollow Night that way without issue).

From my memory, BL2 also never ask me anything.

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[mikear69]

In anticipation of the new Tiny Tina game coming out, I thought I would do the BL2 Tiny Tina DLC first. Fired up BL2 and shadows did not work, and in fact were changing with convergence. I tried most of the stuff above, but aside from disabling shadows I could not get a game running with working shadows.

So I went into the shader code and was able to fix the shadows at source - the original fix only had a vertex shader fix, and I think it was causing the convergence dependence as well, so I fixed that, then I found and fixed the pixel shader as well. I am on 452.06 with modded driver (from 3DFM), Windows 10 21H1, and I used the Batman Arkham City profile, as recommended above. I did not change anything else, all eqzitara's original code is in there except the shadows vertex shader which I changed (I used the 'hidden' cross-hair version), and it works with the same helix dll in the original fix.

One remaining weird thing is that when you start the game (and in my case every time), the shadows are wrong, so you need to turn the separation wheel on the pyramid up and down and then they will "snap" into place. I fast travelled to the Tiny Tina DLC and shadows were all fine there as well, so I am assuming the fix should cover all levels. You can also set FOV to max, though you end feeling like a 6" mouse unless you lower the convergence somewhat.

I can't update the original fix, but link here to a zipped up ShaderOverride folder https://www.dropbox.com/s/w1c79nxddcrwe ... e.rar?dl=0.

[Lysander]

Oh wow, super cool! Thank you so much for fixing those pesky shadows and awesome it worked for Tina dlc as well, good to have those 2 back in 3d

[sarahlly]

Hi,
I did see your post and remembered that I got it working last year using the original fix.

I used the good old technique of “download an older steam version”. Gearbox have indeed broke the fix a while back and getting and older version works perfectly.

You simply have to find the right manifest using steamDB an then download it via DepotDownloader and finally copy it in your game directory.

However, no possibility to play online with this solution.

Hope it can help someone

Meaningful. If you have a link it will be better for everyone.

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